La Condamine´s travels in South America
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SOUTH AMERICA. LA CONDAMINE, (CHARLES MARIA) DE. Relation abrégée d´un voyage fait dans l´intérieur de l´Amerique méridionale, depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu´aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guyane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones... Nouvelle édition augmentée de la Relation de l´Emeute populaire de Cuença au Pérou, et d´un lettre de m. Godin des Odonais, contenant la Relation de Madame, Godin, son epouse. Maestricht (chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux) 1778.
8:o. (4), i-xvi, (1)-379, (1 blank) pp. 1 folding engraved frontispiece (some foxing and spotting, tear in the folding), 1 folding engraved map (of the Amazon river).
Later (mid 19th century) half cloth, speckled edges. Some foxing and browning.
First published in 1745.
La Condamine was one of those chosen by the Academie des Sciences to participate in an expedition to Peru to measure several degrees of meridian at the equator hoping to settle the Newtonian / Cartesian controversy over the shape of the poles. La Condamine was accompanied by his fellow Academiciens Godin and Bouguer and the naturalist Joseph de Jussieu, after completing their measurements they returned by separate routes and La Condamine who chose to return by way of the Amazon ended up making the first scientific exploration of that river and the first map included here of the Amazon in which the latitudes were observed.
Provenance: The von Celsing family, Biby.
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Auktionsnummer:
327872
Datum:
2015-09-27